Newman Haynes Clanton marries
Mariah Sexton Kelso in Callaway County Missouri. Together they would have
five sons and two daughters.

July 18, 1841

Their first child John Wesley
was born in Callaway County, Missouri.

December 1845

Their second son Phineas Fay
Clanton was born in Callaway County, Missouri.

1847

Their third son Joseph Isaac
"IKE" Clanton was born in Callaway County, Missouri.

1850

Newman Haynes "Old Man" Clanton
leaves his wife and three sons for about a year to search for gold in California.

1851

The Clanton family moves to Adams
County, Illinois.

December 22, 1851

Newman and Mariahs first daughter
Mary Elsie Clanton was born in Adams County, Illinois.

1853

The Clanton family moves to Texas.

June 6, 1854

Their second daughter Ester Ann
"Hettie" Clanton was born in Dallas, Texas.

1858

Their fourth son Alonzo Peter
Clanton was born in Dallas, Texas.

It is believed that Alonzo died
shortly after birth.

1861

Newman Haynes and his oldest
John Wesley enlist in a company of confederate home guards ... after serving
58 days John deserted.

1862

Newman and Mariahs fifth and
final son William Harrison "Billy" was born in Hamilton County, Texas.

1865

The wars ends and the Clanton
family moves to Fort Bowie, Arizona Territory.

1866

The Clanton family moves to San
Buena Ventura, California.

Somewhere along the way Mariah
Kelso Clanton dies leaving Newman with four boys and two daughters to care
for.

January 14, 1869

John Wesley marries seventeen
year old Nancy Rose Kelsy in Inyo County, California.

John who was a farmer, his wife
Nancy and Phineas Fay were living in Lone Pine, California.

John and Nancy would later have
six children.

1871

Newman Haynes moves his family
to what is known today as Port Hueneme, California.

Ike Clanton was listed as a day
laborer at this time.

While living here Ike had a heated
and threatening dispute over a land agreement.

March 1872

Both Newman Clantons daughters
would get married in Santa Barbara, California.

Oldest daughter Mary Elsie married
Andrew Jackson Slinkard.

They would go on to have five
children.

Youngest daughter Ester Ann "Hettie"
married August M. Smith on March 16, they would go on to have ten children!

1873

Newman Haynes Clanton had a plan
to start his own farming community, so he moved the entire family back
to Arizona.

John Wesley and his wife came
to Arizona, along with Phin , Ike, Billy, Mary Elsie, Ester Ann and their
two husbands.

The family settled in Gila Valley
near Camp Goodwin.

For four years the Clantons farmed
land trying to show other settlers the place to live and farm was Clantonville!

1877

The Clantons finally threw in
the towel on Clantonville!

John Wesley moved his family
back to California, while the rest of the family moved down on the San
Pedro river, up the river from Charleston, Arizona.

1877

The Clanton family builds a large
adobe house in Lewis Springs, about five miles south of Charleston and
would become the headquarters for the cowboys.

1877

Prospector Edward Schieffelin
discovers rich veins of silver in an area known as Goose Flats, about 12
miles north of Charleston.

Goose Flats would be soon become
the boom town known today as Tombstone, Arizona.

Before Ed struck it rich, soldiers
told him, "The only thing youíll find in then thar hills, is your own tombstone,"
as renegade Apache Indians roamed the area, so Ed named his first claim
Tombstone in their honor.

December 12, 1878

A notice in the Arizona Weekly
Star Newspaper read:

"Tombstone mill site is now the
scene of activity.

Houses, shanties and jackals
are going up rapidly and several families are now on the ground.

After the shooting Wyatt Earp
pistol whipped "Curly Bill" to the ground and arrested him along with Pony
Diehl, Frank Patterson, Tom & Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton.

This was the first real confrontation
between the cowboys and the Earps.

November 26, 1880

Newman H. Clanton purchased a
resident and saloon on two lots on the west side of Pioneer Street in the
town of Charleston, Pima County, Arizona Territory.

He also purchased two lots on
the east side of Pioneer Street during the same deal.

November 26, 1880

Ike Clanton and John Ringo filed
a land location notice in Grant County, New Mexico.

The notice was for 320 acres
of grazing and farming land in Animas Valley, about 28 miles north of Guadalupe
Canyon.

The notice stated that the 320
acres would be called "Alfalfa or Cienega Ranch. Later this ranch was called
San Simon Cienega and is often referred to as Joe Hills Ranch.

Murder
on the stage...

March 15, 1881

A robbery attempt takes place
against the Kinnear & Co. Stage at Drew station.

Driver Bud Philpot and a passenger
named Peter Roerig were murdered in the failed attempt.

A posse was quickly formed and
that same night a man named Luther king was captured at a near by ranch
and admitted his involvement.

He named his accomplices as Bill
Leonard, Harry Head and Jim Crane.

After Luther King was arrested,
he was brought to back to Tombstone, but quickly escaped into thin air.

By this time, the news was sweeping
the town that Doc Holliday had been one of the robbers.

The
Confession...

March 1881

March, a few days after Bud Philpot
was killed, Ike Clanton ran into Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

When Holliday asked Ike if he
had seen "Will" Leonard and his party, Ike told him he had.

Holliday then began describing
in detail what took place when Philpot was killed.

Holliday knew that Ike had already
heard Bill Leonardís version of the attack.

Doc told Ike that he shot Bud
Philpot through the heart.

Before Holliday was finished
with his description, Ike told him not to take him in confidence, that
he didnít want to hear anymore about it.

Tempers
begin to flare...

April 13, 1881

Doc Holliday is arrested in Tombstone.

The charges are for making threats
against someone's life.

It sure seems Hollidays temper
was starting to get the best of him over these murder accusations.

April 28, 1881

Newman H. "Old Man" Clanton purchased
a parcel of land in the town of Charleston, Cochise County, Arizona Territory.
Lot six in block (M) together with a house.

The said lot was 25 feet across
the front, and 100 feet across the back, located on Stowe Street.

May 30, 1881

Doc Holliday is indicted by a
grand jury for participating in a shooting affray.

It seems Doc was really losing
himself over these murder accusation.

At this time, it was still only
talk or rumors, nobody could prove Hollidays involvement.

Wyatt
Earps Deal...

June 1, 1881

Ike Clanton met with Wyatt Earp
in the Eagle Brewery Saloon.

Wyatt offers Ike $6000 in reward
money to help him capture or kill the men involved in the attempted stage
hold-up and murders.

Ike thinks about it, but declines
a couple of days later.

June 23, 1881

The Arizona Daily Star of Tucson
reports that Bill Leonard and Harry Head, two of the alleged stagecoach
murderers have been killed in Eureka, N.M. by the Haslett brothers.

Docís
girl blows his cover...

Doc Hollidays live in girlfriend
known as Big Nose Kate, signs an an affidavit implicating him in the stagecoach
murders.

Arrested
for murder...

July 5, 1881

a warrant was issued and Doc
Holliday was arrested and charged with complicity in the murder of Bud
Philpot and the attempted stage robbery near contention on March 15th.
Wyatt Earp and a local Tombstone saloon keeper posted the $5000 bail.

As soon as the smoke cleared,
Ike Clanton wanted the Earps and Holliday arrested for murder.

Billy Clantons last words were:
"Drive the crowd away."

This famous gunfight is known
today as the Gunfight at the OK Corral.

The largest funeral in Tombstone
history takes place.

Over 2000 people show up to show
their last respects for Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury.

The three murder victims are
laid to rest in Boothill Graveyard.

TOMBSTONE NUGGET NEWSPAPER ARTICLEOctober 28, 1881

AN IMPOSING FUNERAL.

The burial of the Dead Cowboys-
An Immence Procession, Etc.

"While it was not entirely expected,
the funeral of Billy Clanton and Thomas and Frank McLowery, yesterday,
was the largest ever witnessed in Tombstone. It was advertised to take
place at 3 o'clock, but it was about 4 o'clock before the cortege moved,
yet a large number had gathered at the undertaker's long before the first
time mentioned. The bodies of the three men, neatly and tastefully dressed,
were placed in handsome caskets with heavy silver trimmings. Upon each
was a silver plate bearing the name, age, birthplace and date of the death
of each. A short time before the funeral, photographs were taken of the
dead. The procession was headed by the Tombstone brass band playing the
solemn and touching march of the dead. The first wagon contained the body
of Billy Clanton, followed by those of THE MCLOWRY BOYS. A few carriages
came next in which were friends and relatives of the deceased, among whom
were Ike and Finn Clanton. After these were about three hundred persons
on foot, twenty-two carriages and buggies and one four horse stage, and
the horsemen, making a line nearly two blocks in length. The two brothers
were buried in one grave, and the young Clanton close by those who were
his friends in life and companions in death. The inscription upon the plates
of the caskets stated that Thomas McLowry was 25 years of age, Frank McLowry
29 years of age, both natives of Mississippi, and that William H. Clanton
was 19 years of age and a native of Texas. "Yet a little sleep, a little
slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep."

Wyatt
and Doc arrested for murder...

October 29, 1881

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were
arrested for the murders of Billy Clanton and McLaury brothers.

Morgan and Virgil Earp were not
arrested because they were confined to their beds with very serious gun
shot wounds.

October 1881

An interesting fact:

This month Ike Clanton made $3200
in bank transactions at the Pima County County Agency bank, in Tombstone
... a heck of a lot of money in 1881!

November 9-12, 1881

Ike Clanton testifies at the
murder trial of the Earps and Doc Holliday.

November 26, 1881

Exactly one month to the day
after the gunfight, Ike Clanton registers to vote.

Charges
are dropped...

November 29, 1881

The pre-trial was concluded and
Judge Wells Spicer made his decision to not hold the Earps or Doc Holliday
for a murder trial.

The following statement was the
judges conclusions:

"In view of all the facts and
circumstances of the case; considering the threats made the character and
position of the parties, and the tragic results accomplished, in manner
and form as they were, with all the surrounding influences bearing upon
the result of the affair, I cannot resist the conclusion that the defendants
were fully justified in committing these homicides that it was a necessary
act done in the discharge of official duty."

Cowboy
Revenge...

December 15, 1881

The Benson stage is attacked
at Malcombís Water Station, 4 miles from Tombstone on Contention Rd.

This was an alleged attempt on
the life of Earp family friend John P. Clum.

He would survive the attack,
but was crippled for life in his left arm.

Ike and Phin Clanton were arrested
for the ambush, but released because witnesses confirmed they were in Charleston,
when the attack occurred.

Wyatt
and doc are arrested, again...

February 9, 1882

Despite the first release of
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday on murder charges.

Ike Clanton again filed a second
murder charge against them, this time in Contention City, a few miles from
Tombstone.

Wyatt and Doc were again taken
into custody. Virgil and Morgan Earp were still confined to their beds
due to the injuries they sustained in the gunfight.

February 11, 1882

The defendants (Earps and Holliday)
filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus petition, stating that: Judge Smith in Contention
City had no right to hold them after the grand jury and Judge Spicer had
released the murder charges on November 29, 1881 in Tombstone.

Judge J.H. Lucas ruled that Judge
Smith did have the authority to incarcerate them.

They would have to appear before
Judge Smith.

Charges
are dropped, again...

February 15, 1882

Judge Smith adjourned the trial
to Tombstone and a second Writ of Habeas Corpus petition was filed by the
Earps and Doc Holliday.

Immediately this same day Ike
Clanton filed yet a third murder charge, this time in Judge Lucasís court,
but the Writ of Habeas Corpus was granted and the Earps and Doc Holliday
were discharged form custody.

The following is what Judge Lucas
stated:

"Unless new evidence or circumstances
occur subsequent to the first examination, it would only duplicate the
first hearing."

Bullets
fly...

March 18, 1882

Morgan Earp is murdered while
playing pool in the Campbell and Hatch Saloon in Tombstone.

Wyattís
murderous rampage...

March 20, 1882

Frank Stilwell is murdered by
Wyatt Earp at the Tucson train station.

Ike Clanton and Pete Spencer
are said to have been with Stilwell.

March 22, 1882

Wyatt Earp murders Florentino
Cruz at Pete Spencers wood camp, located at South Pass in the Dragoon mountains.

Cruz was also called Indian Charlie.

March 24, 1882

Wyatt Earp kills "Curly Bill"
Brocius in Mescal Springs, in the Whetstone mountains, also known as Iron
Springs, Arizona.

Johnny Barnes will also die from
gunshot wounds form this gunfight.

Ringo
found dead...

July 13, 1882

John Peter Ringo is found dead
on Turkey Creek, Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona of apparent suicide.

September 3, 1882

Mary Elsie marries her second
husband Eben B. Stanley, in Apache County, Arizona.

November 23, 1882

Phineas Fay "Phin" Clanton registers
to vote in Cochise County.

Late 1882

Ike and Phin Clanton move two
hundred miles north of Tombstone to Apache County, Arizona.

Both acquired one hundred and
sixty acres in an area known as Cienega Amarilla. There little sister Mary
Elsie lived nearby in Springerville with her husband Ebin Stanley.